Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a music journalist from New York City, living in Nashville. In Serj Tankian’s new memoir, Down With The System (out now), the ...

In his new memoir, Down With the System, Serj Tankian shares many intimate details of his personal life and the lives of his family. From the Armenian genocide to his dad dealing with lawsuits in ...

As a guest on Soul Boom, the podcast hosted by actor Rainn Wilson (The Office), Serj Tankian explains the System of a Down lyric "sacred silence and sleep" means. The podcast is centered around life, ...

The sound of protest music used to be the gentle plucking of Bob Dylan's guitar or the smooth grooves of Marvin Gaye. But at the end of the 1990s, there was a more insistent voice, screaming through a ...

Serj Tankian is a man of many talents. Aside from being the lead singer of rock band System of a Down, he’s also a solo artist, composer, filmmaker and painter. This month he can add author to that ...

David Hakopyan was a member of Hollywood rockers Soil before they re-named themselves and dominated the nu metal era ...

It's been some time since System of a Down has released new music, with their last singles, "Protect the Land" and "GenocidalHumanoidz", in 2020. But fans won't have to wait long to hear the band's ...

Forget pyro on stage, System Of A Down fans have you covered. At least that’s what the band experienced during a recent show of theirs in São Paulo, Brazil. In a couple almost unbelievable Instagram ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture the scene. It's November 22, 2005. One of the biggest bands in metal are releasing their fifth studio album: the second ...

System of a Down have never shied away from dealing with serious topics and on their second album Toxicity, which came out just one week prior to September 11, 2001, the group tackled many different ...

System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan has called for the jailing of actress Charlize Theron over comments on gender identity, but the quote attributed to Theron did not actually come from her. Over ...